SZA Trivia
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48 free SZA trivia questions with answers — music quiz, new questions added Sep 2026.
42 free SZA trivia questions with answers. SZA went from self-released EPs on Tumblr to the first woman with 100 weeks in the Billboard 200 top ten, and this quiz follows the whole arc. Forty-two questions cover Solana Rowe's childhood in Maplewood, New Jersey, the Wu-Tang-inspired stage name, signing to Top Dawg Entertainment, the long-delayed debut Ctrl, the five-year wait for SOS, the Lana reissue, the hits Kill Bill, Snooze, Good Days and Luther, the Grammys she lost and won, and her partnership with Kendrick Lamar from Babylon to the Grand National Tour. Easy questions ask which film franchise Kill Bill is named after and who she duetted with on Kiss Me More; the hard ones want the album's original title, the college major she abandoned, whose voice is sampled as Granny and the princess referenced on the SOS cover. Made for fans who know their Ctrl deep cuts, and workable for anyone who has had SOS on repeat. Every answer was checked against Wikipedia's articles on SZA, her albums and singles, and each question carries the sentence that backs it up.
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Q 01What is SZA's real first name?
Solána
Solána gave rise to a nickname her friends use for her, and SZA folded that nickname into the meanings behind the title of her album SOS.
Q 02Which New Jersey town did SZA grow up in?
Maplewood
Maplewood's Columbia High School inducted her into its hall of fame, and in her speech she admitted she had been unpopular there and never went to prom.
Q 03SZA's stage name nods to RZA and GZA, two members of which hip-hop group?
Wu-Tang Clan
Wu-Tang Clan's RZA later returned the nod by narrating the teaser video that revealed the release date of her debut album, Ctrl.
Q 04SZA stopped wearing her hijab in middle school after which event left her scared of how people would react?
The September 11 attacks
The September 11 attacks scared her out of covering, and when she started wearing it again in high school, some people judged her as not devout enough.
Q 05What did SZA study at Delaware State University before dropping out in her final semester?
Marine biology
Marine biology was her major; in 2018 she unveiled Ctrl Fishing Co., a clothing line whose profits she pledged to protecting the oceans.
Q 06Which record label signed SZA in July 2013, making her its first female artist?
Top Dawg Entertainment
Top Dawg Entertainment signed SZA in July 2013 as its first female artist; she had met label president Terrence 'Punch' Henderson at a 2011 CMJ show her boyfriend's clothing company sponsored.
Q 07Pushing back on critics' labels, which genre tag did SZA add to an early song on SoundCloud?
Not R&B
Not R&B was her way of refusing the box: she has called that label lazy and disrespectful, one people hand her simply because she is Black.
Q 08Which actor-director lip-synced to SZA's song 'Drive' in a teaser video in 2024?
Ben Stiller
Ben Stiller's clip doubled as the announcement that her long-delayed SOS deluxe edition would finally arrive that Friday.
Q 09SZA premiered her song 'Saturn' in a 2024 Grammys-night ad for which card company?
Mastercard
Mastercard's ad cast her in an enchanted forest, fitting a campaign that pledges to plant millions of trees around the globe.
Q 10Which Rihanna song did SZA co-write and feature on, having planned it as the centrepiece of her own album?
Consideration
Consideration already had a music video filmed for her own album, and though losing it frustrated her, she later said she was glad it happened.
Q 11SZA co-wrote 'Feeling Myself', a 2014 collaboration between Beyoncé and which rapper?
Nicki Minaj
Nicki Minaj and Beyoncé sing words SZA wrote: she says she wrote parts of the lyrics, more than two years before her own debut album finally came out.
Q 12What was SZA's debut album originally going to be titled before it became Ctrl?
A
A was meant to close a trilogy of one-letter releases spelling out SZA, after her EPs S and Z, until the project grew into a full album.
Q 13Which actress's name is also the title of a single from SZA's album Ctrl?
Drew Barrymore
Drew Barrymore's outcast film roles made SZA feel better about being awkward, and the actress later made a brief cameo in the song's music video.
Q 21Which pop star picked up SZA's dress train as she climbed the 2022 Grammys stage on crutches?
Lady Gaga
Lady Gaga had just lost the award to her; SZA was on crutches after falling out of bed and hurting her ankle shortly before the show.
Q 22Which beauty chain apologised to SZA in 2019 after she said staff called security on her while she shopped?
Sephora
Sephora shut every US store for an hour of staff inclusion workshops a month later, though it said the training had been planned before her tweet.
Q 23The SOS album cover, with SZA seated on a diving board over the sea, references a photo of whom?
Diana, Princess of Wales
Q 14Which Ctrl single features Travis Scott?
Love Galore
Love Galore went on without Travis Scott when she sang it on Saturday Night Live, so she filled his spot with a new verse of her own.
Q 15What did SZA cut back on Ctrl so her voice could be heard clearly?
Reverb
Reverb had been her cover, she has said: once the effects were stripped away, she found she was forced to actually say something in her songs.
Q 16Who beat SZA for Best New Artist at the 2018 Grammys, where she won nothing?
Alessia Cara
Alessia Cara won, then defended the award on Instagram after a backlash, while SZA, the night's most-nominated woman, went home empty-handed.
Q 17'All the Stars', SZA's 2018 duet with Kendrick Lamar, led the soundtrack of which film?
Black Panther
Black Panther's soundtrack was produced and curated by Kendrick Lamar and the head of his label, after director Ryan Coogler hand-picked them for the job.
Q 18SZA's first Billboard Hot 100 top ten came as a featured artist on 'What Lovers Do' by which band?
Maroon 5
Maroon 5's video for the song moves to Las Vegas, where Adam Levine loses a poker game to SZA, grows into a giant and rampages until he is brought down.
Q 19'Kiss Me More', which won SZA her first Grammy, was a collaboration with which artist?
Doja Cat
Doja Cat's 'Kiss Me More' builds its chorus on Olivia Newton-John's 'Physical', so that song's writers also share credit on it.
Q 20Which December 2020 single, the lead single from SOS, gave SZA her first solo top ten in the US?
Good Days
'Good Days', released on Christmas Day 2020 as the lead single from SOS, peaked at number nine on the Hot 100, SZA's first solo top ten.
Diana, Princess of Wales, looked so isolated in that photo that SZA used it as her reference, and the diving board was built after a shipping-barge shoot fell through.
Q 24How did SZA reveal SOS's track list?
A layout poll
A layout poll: she posted two versions of the album's back cover and asked fans which worked best, which doubled as the unofficial track list announcement.
Q 25SOS broke which albums' records for the longest US top-ten runs by a woman and by a Black artist?
21 and Thriller
21 and Thriller were both passed in spring 2025, more than two years after release, and SZA said matching Michael Jackson's record left her speechless.
Q 26Which British festival did SZA close on its final night in June 2024?
Glastonbury
Glastonbury gave her a rough night: her microphone sounded muddy for the first half hour, and the crowd was unusually thin for a Pyramid Stage closer.
Q 27Which actress from the Kill Bill films makes a cameo in SZA's 'Kill Bill' music video?
Vivica A. Fox
Vivica A. Fox reprises her assassin from the films, picking SZA up in her car and driving her off to train for revenge.
Q 28Which sport did SZA compete in as a teenager before turning to music?
Gymnastics
Gymnastics stayed with her: in a 2024 Olympics promo she held a handstand a few seconds longer than Simone Biles to win their friendly contest.
Q 29Which SOS single won Best R&B Song at the 2024 Grammys, where SZA was the most-nominated artist?
Snooze
Snooze came out of sessions for Babyface's album Girls Night Out, where it was planned as a duet, before SZA kept the song for SOS.
Q 30Which pop-rock track on SOS was co-written with Lizzo, SZA's would-be rock bandmate?
F2F
F2F came together in the studio as Lizzo watched SZA freestyle nearly the whole song except the chorus, and its '90s grunge feel had them joking it was for their band.